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The name for the type of argument used in the linked article/video is reductio ad absurdum (or maybe ad ridiculum), and unlike ad homeneim, it is not inherently a fallacy.

I think there is real merit in challenging, even via theatre, the have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too role held by corporations, and the very real growth of corporate personhood interpretations of law.

(... An example of ad hominem might be your implication that, by holding the views in my prior sentence, I'm "jumping onto this bandwagon" and abandoning "high standards" ...)




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